JEALOUSY QUARRELS

Evening Star, Issue 19198, 15 March 1926, Page 2

JEALOUSY QUARRELS

SUICIDES AFTER MURDER ATTEMPTS Sydney has experienced this week (writes the Auckland ‘Star’ correspondent, March 3) two cases where men, apparently prompted by jealous motiVes, have suicided after attempting to murder women. In eachjmse they used revolvers, and their aims wore more deadly when the weapon was turned on themselves than when they attempted to end the lives of the women. . . , The first case was discovered in dramatic manner. A motorist, traieliing along Long Bay road. Marouha saw, staggering into the glare ot his headlights, a woman whoso face was covered in blood. Her body sagged ns she knew help was near, and she collapsed when the motorist stopped. _ She is Mrs Nancy _ Ogilvio, aged twenty-four, and she lives apart from her husband, in Arthur street, IlandW The motorist took her straight to the Coast Hospital, at Littlo Bay, where she was admitted in a semi-conscious condition, suffering from the effects of three bullet wounds. . "When the police were apprised they searched along the road and made the ghastly discovery of a man’s body in a stationary car. In his head, which hung limply over the side door, were two bullet wounds. Either was sufficiently vital to have caused death. The story told the police by the woman, who recovered somewhat, after hospital attention, was that she came to Sydney last July and met William Bourke, a married man, living in Chester street, Petersham. Her husband managed a confectionery business in High street, St. Hilda, Melbourne. Her friendship with Bourke continued until last Monday, when she told Bourke she intended to return to her husband as a result of a visit the latter paid her some clays previously. On the night of the tragedy, however, Bourke telephoned and asked her to meet him. Ho drove to the spot where the shooting occurred, drinking the major portion of a flask of whisky on the way. Ho was overwrought when she reiterated her intention of returning to her husband, who had promised to allow her to return to Scotland in the course of a month or two. Suddenly Bourke drew a revolver. “You won’t go hack to your husband, or to Scotland either,” ho said, at the same time firing three shots at her head. One bullet passed through her forehead and came out over her right eye. She did not remember how she got out of the car, and only dimly recollected staggering along the road until the rescuer appeared. She is only a recent arrival here from Scotland. Bourke had four children.

Apparently he turned the gun on himself as soon as ho had fired at Mrs Ogilvie. Since tho occurrence doctors havo operated on Mrs Ogilvie and removed one of her eyes, the pupil of which was penetrated by one of the bullets. She had been working as a housemaid at a place at Coogee. SHOT HIS WIFE.

The second case occurred at Guildford, on the suburban lino to Parramatta, on Thursday night. Keith James Latty (30) and his wife Lillian May Latty, were tho principals in the affair. They had been separated since last Monday, and on Thursday night Latty called at j the place where she was living in Military road, Guildford.

The woman with whom Mrs Latty was staying told tho police that she heard the couple arguing whether Mrs Latty would go back to her husband.

Shortly afterwards two revolver shots rang out, and, on running out, the landlady saw Mrs Latty staggering about the lawn with her hands clutched round her throat.

Latty lay in a crumpled heap on the roadway, with a bullet wound in the back ot his head.

They were. rushed to hospital, but Latty died soon after admission. His wife’s condition is regarded as. critical, but she may live.